Magnanimity

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 130, 22 April 1893, Page 4

Magnanimity

«. A supposed criminal was arrested recently by a policeman of Kelheim, in Bayaria, and was quietly walking along with bis captor beside tbe Danube, when suddenly he jumped into tbe water. The weather bad been very Bevere, and there were great blocks of floating ice stretching across tbe river. Springing from block to block, the prisoner succeded in gaining the opposite bank, followed at a distance by the policeman. But tbe policeman was less nimble, and fell into tbe swiftly flowing water. To the credit of human nature, the prisoner did not hesitate a moment. Ho plunged in, and brought the policeman safely to dry land. Then it was the turn of tbe policeman to be generous. He offered to represent the matter to the proper authorities, with a view to obtaining a life-saying medal for his preserver. The latter, however, did not see tbe matter quite in the same light. He claimed his liberty, and the otber one agreed that bo had earned it, and, giving him a couple of marks for himself, dismissed him with a blessing. The fugitive has not since been recaptured.